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I I UNITED STATES.

. PATENT OFFICE.

. WILLIAM A. W IGHT, or LA GRANGE, GEORGIA.

WASH-BOILER.

SPECIFICATION. forming part of Letters Patent No. 274,076, dated March 13, 1883.

' Application filed July 24, 1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concernr Be it known that I, W. A. WRIGHT, of La Grange, in the county of Troup and State of wash-boilers; and it consists in an attachment Whichhas a guide to direct the flow of the water secured in its lowerend, in combination with a cylinderwhich is secured upon the top of the baseof the attachment, and which cylinder has pipes connecting with its under side for the inflow of the water, and pipes attached to its upper side for the discharge of y the water, as will be nore fully described hereinafter.

The accompanying drawing is a vertical section of my invention.

A represents the base of the attachment, which is made in the form of an inverted pan,and which has a series of holes, B, through its side, so as to let the water flow freely in. Inside of this base is secured a guide, 0, which corresponds to the shape of the base, and which is held in place by suitable pieces, D, which are soldered to the sides of the guide and to the base. This base has a hole made through its center, and projecting up above the top of this hole into the cylinder F, on top of the base, is the flange G, which serves to guide the rising hot water directly into the cylinder. This 'flange also serves to separate the water which flows up over the top of the guide from that which passes directly through the hole in its center. By this means an additional guide is formed for the rising of the water, so as to direct it in itsupward movement Between the sides and the top portions of this guide and the base is left a sufficient spacefor the water to flow freely between them and to pass throughthe two pipes I directly into the cylinder. It will be seen that the rising water passes directly through the center of the guide and over its top, so as points. U

In order to anchor the attachment in the bottom of the boiler, so that it will not be so easy to upset the attachment, or to displace it while the clothes are being placed in the boiler, the guide is filled with sand or some other heavy substance, so as to hold the attachment in place. This makes the heaviest part of the attachment at its bottom, where it should be. 1

Rising from the top of the cylinder are the two discharge-pipes J, which have their upper ends curved outward, so as to discharge the water outward over the tops of the clothes. The water, becoming heated inside of the base of the attachment, rises upward, and is first carried into the cylinder on top of the base. This cylinder acts as a reservoir, and as the water is carried into the cylinder through not only larger pipes, but through a greater number, the water is forced outward over'the tops of the clothes with considerable 1. In an attachment for wash-boilers, the

combination of the base, the guide G, connecting-pipes, cylinder F, and the pipes J, having a suitable dischargingdeviceplaced upon their tops, substantially as shown.

2. The combination of the base having a series of holes through its side, a guide secured inside of the base, and having aflange' rising around the opening through its center up into the opening in the cylinder, with the cylinder, and the pipes which connect it to the base, and the discharge-pipes which carry the heated water upward, substantially as set forth. i

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

k WILLIAM ABRAHAM WRIGHT.

Witnesses:

I. W. RAGLAND, G. H. GRIFFIN. A 

